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Install and Configure for Windows

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*.  Select a Mirror and save the downloaded file on your workstation.
  1. .  Select a Mirror and save the downloaded file on your workstation.
  1. Unzip/untar the binaries to a new folder (i.e. c:\maven\2.2.1).

    Install and Configure for Windows

  2. Add   Add the path to the Maven bin directory to the system PATH environment variable.  For example: add c:\maven\2.2.1\bin to the PATH environment variable.
  3. Download the serverTrustStore.jks and save it to a new folder (i.e. c:\keystores).
  4. To download Maven artifacts from the remote MIT maven repository (https://maven-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org), an SSL connection is required.  For Maven to acquire an SSL connection, you must create a system environment variable MAVEN_OPTS and set it as below:

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MAVEN_OPTS=-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/path/to/serverTrustStore.jks -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword="XXXXXXXX" -Xmx512m -Xms512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
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In the above, replace the /path/to with the actual path to the serverTrustStore.jks and replace XXXXXXXX with the actual serverTrustStore password.

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  You can now [download a nice plugin | How to install the Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.5 stand alone server^RCEnvironment-1.4.X.dmg] that helps you manage your system environmental variables.  The plugin, *RCEnvironment*, is a preference pane for MacOS X 10.1 or higher that allows editing of a user's ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file.

  • Verify the Maven installation by opening a CMD window and typying the command line: mvn --version.  If everything is correct, something similar to the following should be displayed:

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    Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 15:16:01-0400)
Java version: 1.6.0_27
Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_27\jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 7" version: "6.1" arch: "amd64" Family: "windows"

  • If the Maven installation has been verified in the above step, then initialize Maven by typing the command line: mvn plugin::help.  Maven download will start and if everything download's correctly, something similar to the following should be displayed at the end of the download:

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    \[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
\[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
\[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
\[INFO] Total time: 58 seconds
\[INFO] Finished at: Thu May 31 10:23:25 EDT 2012
\[INFO] Final Memory: 11M/981M
\[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

  • Finally, download the Maven settings.xml file to your ${user.home}/.m2 directory.

    Open the settings.xml file with a text editor.

    1. In the line:

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      *<oc4j.j2eeHome>/path/to/oc4j/j2ee/home</oc4j.j2eeHome>*

      change the /path/to/oc4j/j2ee/home to the actual path to your OC4J installation j2ee/home directory.

    2. In the line:

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      <oc4j.password>*XXXXXXXX*</oc4j.password>

      change the XXXXXXXX to a password of your choosing.  This is the password the is used to access the OC4J Admin Console.